<P>Protecting information, identifying undercover agents, and operating clandestinely--efforts known as counterintelligence--are the primary objectives of terrorist groups evading detection by intelligence and law enforcement officials. Some strategies work well, some fail, and those tasked with tra
Terrorism and counterintelligence: how terrorist groups elude detection
β Scribed by Mobley, Blake W
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Blake W. Mobley is an associate political scientist with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Before joining RAND, he worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as a counterintelligence analyst in the Middle East and Washington, D.C and specialized in non-state actor counterintelligence issues. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Georgetown University, his M.P.P. from Harvard University, and his B.A. from Stanford University.
β¦ Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Provisional Irish Republican Army 3. Fatah and Black September 4. Al Qa'ida 5. The Egyptian Islamic Group 6. Failure in Embryonic Terrorist Groups 7. Terrorism and Counterintelligence Notes Bibliography Index
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